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[sparker1]

Mt. Hood from Trillium Lake, Oregon

 

[West Coast Birder]

Mt. Hood from Trillium Lake, Oregon
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Never get tired of this classic view!

 

[sparker1]

Mt. Hood from Lost Lake, Oregon.

 

[jimmy_racoon]

Santa Catalina Mountains in Coronada National Forest east of Tucson
Catalina Mountains by James Stewart, on Flickr

 

[SJA]

Skies by Sabrina Aspinall, on Flickr

 

[sparker1]

Santa Catalina Mountains in Coronada National Forest east of Tucson
Catalina Mountains by James Stewart, on Flickr

Good one, James. I love the detail.

 

[jimmy_racoon]

Good one, James. I love the detail.

Thank you, Stan!
The 70-200 f/4L IS was my 1st Canon "L" lens and is is still performing vey well.
Cheers

 

[sparker1]

Colorado

 

[sparker1]

Banff, Alberta, Canada

 

[Stiga]

Cristallo Dolomites​

 

[Lyn2011]

Cristallo Dolomites​

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Beautiful, I could sit there on that terras the whole day watching the mountains.

 

[Sogs]

Mount Washington, NH

Mount Washington by fivebugles, on Flickr

 

[Stiga]

Beautiful, I could sit there on that terras the whole day watching the mountains.

Yes, I did - and I also ate a very good spaghetti inside!

 

[Nordlys]

With a special thought, close to Xmas, for all the great Jasper people who've had such a traumatic year with the wildfires destroying large parts of their town and disfiguring huge parts of the exceptional surroundings.

A shot from the Bald Hills trail with Maligne Lake skirted by the snowy peaks, a few years ago on a snowy September afternoon:

 

[Nordlys]

And this shot taken from the top of the Whistlers without any particular aesthetic value or intent, but with a documentary purpose, shows what Jasper looked like before large areas were reduced to ashes. On that extremely hot and dry summer, the fire that already got the authorities worried around the 10th, became a definite threat on July 22nd, 2024 and remained out of control for weeks. The evacuation order saved lives, but it was obviously tough for Jasper residents to leave everything behind at such short notice. Those who started returning after mid August knew full well what the path of destruction was, as they had seen the hundreds of pictures posted by Parks Canada in the preceding weeks and had sifted through the long list of damaged houses posted on the net. Quite an unfathomable trauma to see everything gone!

 

[sparker1]

Alberta, Canada

 

[N4865G]

Himalayas

 

[N4865G]

Tatra Mountain range, Poland

 

[Nordlys]

Shot from Rogers Pass, a narrow gap between the Hermit and Sir Donald ranges of the Selkirk Mountains, in Glacier National Park, southeastern British Columbia, Canada.
Easy of access by car in the summer. A rewarding steep drive up from the Golden side or from Revelstoke.
Perhaps a good time now, sitting comfortably by the fire, to enjoy browsing through William Hittell Sherzer's "Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks" (1907). It is still available as a free ebook. Another book that caught my attention after I returned from the area is "Among the Selkirk Glaciers" (1890) by William Spotswood Green, describing the hardships endured in those old times by people who spared no effort to discover unknown territory. And all that with means and equipment we would not imagine using today of course. And I often come to the conclusion that any engraving in such books is so much more fascinating than the humble photos we achieve when visiting mountains.

 

[sparker1]

Colorado